© is a system that protects the Grappt password reconstruction and password change at the base.

The “forgotten password function”, a gateway for account hackers, is reliably locked by security questions. So secure that you can also designate your friends as recipients of a password reconstruction link if you only have one email account.

Nobody can lock you out of your account, even if your password has fallen into the wrong hands. Changes to your account security settings can ONLY be made if you are logged in at your highest booked security level.

Your personal settings can be protected against changes to any extent (account security settings)

If you have defined security questions, each change (including the security questions themselves) will only be activated if the security question randomly selected by the system (if you have defined more than one) is answered correctly.

Security question/answer combinations protect your account at the level of security you require.

X  Should “Question 1” with answer “1” or “Question 2” with answer “2” be enough for you? Your decision! Everyone who has read this will know the combination, but they are still just as well protected as all accounts that do not use  © !

If you want to be better, here are a few tips for safe question/answer combinations:

X Social media doesn't work at all: “What's my pet's name?” Face and the other “friends” know better than you do and you are more likely to forget “Your mother's date of birth?” than the internet community.

X The “favorite comic character?” is also easy to guess, because there aren't that many and if it's a special one, you should know how to write it.

Simply answer given questions deliberately with an answer that has nothing to do with it: “My first car?” e.g. with “small red tractor” or other things that only you can assign to the question.

Instead of using predefined questions, it is safer to “invent” your own questions that only help you find the answer.

Make it abstract, for example, by taking a combination of 2 neutral things: e.g. question: “Baker?”, answer: “Cake saw” and with 8 digits you are already at a passably secure password that is so stupid that you are sure to remember it, the reference baker/cake is a help for you, but no outsider will guess the saw.

A book, for example, can be used for more challenging combinations. Question: “Blue right Munich?” Answer: “A2wnTsDngovu” ... The book about the Munich Olympics has always been on the shelf, the second page is blue and the first letters of the text at the top right are the answer you are looking for. That's a 12-digit answer that is very certain. Even if the book is gone, you can get a replacement or...

define several question/answer combinations in case one is forgotten. (At least 2, ideally 3-6, because even to change a security question, you have to answer another randomly selected security question from your question pool).

Too complicated?

Not really for you, considering that everyday use is not affected in any way. The questions protect you in the hopefully rare event that one of your message-receiving accounts is hacked or your password is forgotten.

However, it always remains too complicated for the hacker and that's a good thing!

Passwords in general:

X Your name, nickname, children's date of birth or anything that is known about you via social media is not very suitable as a password.

X 1-2-3-4-5-6 is not exactly safe either, because it is too short. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 is longer, but not better.

X But even the best password is useless if you write it on the device you are using. Not just the paper slip... password memories on end devices or apps with the much-vaunted end-to-end encryption, which immediately give anyone using the device access to the account. Fingerprint scanners are also part of this, by the way, because you hold the device... with your fingers... oops!

Grappt does not tell you what your password must look like! (length, character type...), but it is still in your interest not to choose XXX as your password.

 A password that is currently considered secure has 12 characters in a colorful arrangement (upper/lower case letters, numbers and special characters), but this is difficult to remember, especially as it should not be used for several accounts and should be changed regularly.

“Dumb words” such as the aforementioned ‘cake saw’ are catchier and ‘GeldAut0matenStre1cher’ are also quite nice if you also replace letters with numbers and capitalize others (22 characters).

A passphrase (an access phrase) is better for the more demanding, especially as Grappt also accepts spaces. “Firmly walled in the earth stands the form, baked from clay.” is already an approach, as more than 60 characters are not to be hacked with “brute force”. If someone knows that you are a fan of Schiller, it is still safe, but not unhackable.

If you now only use every 2nd letter, you will only get 30 characters, but “Frl aldi h at tnstefr,bkdfo ly” is cryptic enough.

 An additional tip: Do not write down or save passwords (password safes or browser memories are also included). If you have to use your passwords regularly, it's not quite as convenient, but you won't forget them either, and a little brain training never hurts! Just in case, there's always  ©.

By the way, here is an external link to the password check (and more)